Report: Rolling Stone rape article ‘journalistic failure’

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Rolling Stone magazine retracted a widely discredited article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia after a top journalism school issued a scathing report Sunday concluding it had failed to meet proper journalistic standards.
The review, undertaken at Rolling Stone’s request, presented a broad indictment of the magazine’s handling of a story that had horrified readers, unleashed widespread protests at the university’s Charlottesville campus and sparked a national discussion about sexual assaults on college campuses.
The way the magazine reported, edited and vetted the article is a “story of journalistic failure that was avoidable,” the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said in the report. The criticism came two weeks after the Charlottesville police department said it had found no evidence to back the claims of the victim identified in the story only as “Jackie,” who said she was raped by seven men at a fraternity house.
Rolling Stone’s “failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking,” said the journalism school’s report, which was posted on the school’s and magazine’s websites.

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Fuck the leftist RS asswipe.

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Report: Rolling Stone rape article ‘journalistic failure’

Report: Rolling Stone rape article ‘journalistic failure’

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